Three Brave Men

Three Brave Men is a 1956 film directed by Philip Dunne. It stars Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine.

In July 1956, TwentiethCentury Fox submitted to the U.S. Navy a copy of the screenplay for review as a general cooperative voluntary censorship act routinely practiced at the time when a film involved the U.S. military. The acting Secretary of the Navy, Thomas S. Gates, Jr., found it misleading and at his request Dunne produced a revised version making it clear, in the Navys words, that the Chasanow case was far from being a typical case and that under current procedures it could not happen again. He also removed direct references to antisemitism as a motivation for the proceedings against Chasanow. Another draft was required to identify international Communism as the threat that required rigorous security procedures. In his autobiography, Dunne regretted that he did not make the film he first imagined, a Kafkaesque tale of the denial of human rights, a story the true one of unseen terror, of a man fighting in the dark against unseen enemies, unable to draw upon his constitutional rights to defend himself. The point of view, he wrote, became that of the Navy and its crusade to maintain security, making only a rare mistake. The films closing words delivered by a Navy official whitewashed the Navys responsibility for Chasanows persecution A free country learns from its mistakes. I offer you the Navys apology for the grave injustice youve suffered.Communist conspiracies seem to be everywhere in the 1950s, particularly in Washington, D.C., where word has reached John Rogers, the Secretary of the Navy, that one of his subordinates is strongly suspected to be a Communist sympathizer. ........

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